Re: [swinog] Firewall recommendation for a rack of webservers?

Beat Siegenthaler schrieb:

Rainer Duffner wrote:

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http://pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44&...

and start with that. But the customer would also like to see some "non open-source"-based solutions... :>

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I'd go for a Netscreen model -

The funny thing about this: Netscreen and pfSense are both xBSD-based ;-). Nokia is BSD-Based... Checkpoint (SPLAT) is Linux-based... In this case You will be forced to deploy M$-ISA ;-)

I thought only the Juniper router stuff was FreeBSD-based (they recently donated a MIPS reference implementation). AFAIK, Nokia moved to Linux, too, some time ago. But previously, they could give you Checkpoint on BSD. In a way.

pfSense is FreeBSD6 ;-)

Rainer